Re: Formal submission of Xtables2 [LWN.net]

From:		Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo-AT-netfilter.org>
To:		Jan Engelhardt <jengelh-AT-inai.de>
Subject:		Re: Formal submission of Xtables2
Date:		Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:16:15 +0100
Message-ID:		<20121213151615.GA6962@1984>
Cc:		Netfilter Developer Mailing List <netfilter-devel-AT-vger.kernel.org>, Netfilter user mailing list <netfilter-AT-vger.kernel.org>
Archive-link:		Article, Thread

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 03:53:45PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
[...]
> In my opinion, there is nothing wrong with keeping some concepts. A
> developer is not required to reevaluate and reinnovate every concept
> there has been just for the heck of it. (The old "evolution, not
> revolution" credo.) Throwing everything overboard generally does not
> turn out to work these days.

Nobody is going to throw everything overboard. Nftables is backward
compatible while providing a new framework, revolutions are never
backward compatible.
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